Postcode and municipality
Swiss postcodes vs municipalities: which unit you should trust
Postcodes and municipalities overlap in Switzerland, but they are not the same thing. Keeping them separate makes tax data and location data easier to read.
Municipality hub
Altstätten
Altstätten connects 6 postcode pages in St. Gallen. This hub shows membership, address shares, and demographic context.
- Postcodes
- 6
- Population
- 10'947
- Streets
- 500
- Effective tax rate
- 11.82%
- ESTV: single, CHF 80,000, no church tax
Postcodes in Altstätten
The municipality includes 6 split-postcode cases and 8 locality names. Use the links for address, demographic, and map context.
9450
Low taxesAltstätten SG
- Address share
- 96.5%
- Population
- 5'671
- Effective tax rate
- 11.82%
9452
Low taxesHinterforst
- Address share
- 55.5%
- Population
- 2'142
- Effective tax rate
- 11.82%
9464
Low taxesLienz
- Address share
- 51.4%
- Population
- 2'945
- Effective tax rate
- 11.82%
9463
Low taxesOberriet SG
- Address share
- 4.6%
- Population
- 151
- Effective tax rate
- 11.13%
9453
Low taxesEichberg
- Address share
- 1.9%
- Population
- 23
- Effective tax rate
- 11.38%
9058
Brülisau
- Address share
- 0.5%
- Population
- 15
- Effective tax rate
- 10.40%
How this municipality cluster behaves
Altstätten connects these postcodes through one administrative structure.
For ESTV tax year 2024, the standard scenario produces CHF 9'455 total tax, or 11.82% effective.
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